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Summer Sessions

Welcome!

Get ready for summer 2024!

Applications now open!

Grow beyond your expectations with UC Davis Summer Sessions in California’s College Town of Davis.

With more than 700 courses available over two 6-week sessions and the Special Session with exciting courses offering varying start and end dates, UC Davis Summer Sessions provide students the opportunity to:

  • Get ahead
  • Catch up
  • Stay on track
  • Graduate early

Incoming transfer and first-year students, high school seniors and other college students are welcome to apply, too!

Summer Sessions, affectionately known as UC Davis’s Fourth Quarter, lets you concentrate on challenging courses a few courses at a time, meet new friends and learn more about the campus and Davis, the ultimate college town.

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Current UC Davis students

Meet with your advisor now to prepare for 2024 Summer Sessions. Watch for your Pass Time email from the Office of the University Registrar in mid-April and enroll in Schedule Builder. One Pass Time is assigned and applies to all Summer Sessions.

Other students

Summer Sessions welcomes incoming new students entering UC Davis in fall 2024, students from other UC campuses or other universities, visitors to our campus, as well as UCD alumni. Join us! Applications now open for summer 2024.

Apply now!